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Moving Money From Harm to Healing

From: A Finer Future

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This chapter explores ways in which the global economy can move to support the planet instead of a small minority of shareholders. ; ; ; 20 $2.00 Add
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Multi-family Nature-based Therapy

From: Nature-Based Therapy

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This approach removes both clinician and client from the power dynamics and stigma of entering a social services office building for treatment and into a space where we can all be witnessed for … ; ; 17 $1.70 Add
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New Times, New Tools

Managing For Resilience

From: Resilient Agriculture

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This chapter summarizes the key innovations and practices that the farmers featured in the book have implemented to deal with climate change and describes the main attributes of a sustainable … 42 $4.20 Add
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On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition

Population, Resources, and Human Idealism

From: Peak Everything

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No steady rate of growth in population or resource consumption is sustainable. During the course of the lecture, he asks, “Well, what can we do about this? What makes the population problem … 12 $1.20 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Transportation Planning and Traffic Management

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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Unsustainable transport systems not only are a major contributor to atmosphere change, but also lead to increasing congestion, longer commuting times, increasing demands for shorter work hours to … 19 $1.90 Add
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Power-with and Power-from-within

From: Are We Done Fighting?

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The author describes characteristics of power-with, and offers tips on how it can be recognized and developed in different contexts. The chapter concludes with the introduction of a third type of … 14 $1.40 Add
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S3: The Seeking Information Dimension of Questions

From: The Mediator's Toolkit

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The S3: Seeking Information Questions strategically target the information that is required from the parties for the conversations needed for the mediation process. S3 questions directly seek … 12 $1.20 Add
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Size Matters: Can Buildings Be Too Tall?

From: The New Carbon Architecture

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In this chapter, the author seeks to answer the question: are there limits to how much increases in urban density — especially via vertical growth — will contribute to rather than … 11 $1.10 Add
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Step 3: Developing Strategies – Communication

Communication: Creating Effective Messages

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

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Much of human communication involves persuasion. Whether done by a four-year-old or a marketing firm, the aims are the same: to influence our attitudes and/or our behavior. The transition to a … 21 $0.42 Add
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Supreme Choice

Mastery Over Inner Experience

From: The Power Manual

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Supreme Choice, furthers the thinking on Supreme Power introduced in chapter 5. It concludes the section on choice by asserting that one ultimately has choice over everything one experiences. It … 6 $0.60 Add
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Taking Action

From: Intrinsic Hope

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If we can accept that the global eco-social crisis is human caused, we have the possibility of taking effective action. Taking action is one of the best ways to nurture intrinsic hope. … 17 $1.70 Add
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The Dependency Illusion

From: Indigenomics

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Topics discussed in this chapter include the Great Debunk: Addressing the Illusion 12 $1.20 Add
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The New Normal

From: Emergent Agriculture

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Farmers have played roulette with the weather for 10,000 years. They know the risks and they live with them. They tend to believe that if the weather beats them down this year, things will be … 15 $1.50 Add
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The Parent’s Role

From: Childhood Unplugged

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In this chapter, Martinko explains the importance of parents modeling the screen habits they’d like their children to adopt. Martinko discusses various parenting styles and outlines their … 14 $1.40 Add